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I have been enjoying my day outside! The laundry dried fast, i need to bring that in . The bonfire is burning junk wood again and the birds are happy digging through garbage cans full of leaves.
Next the pallets come off the truck and the windows go down by the goat shed where no guys are working again!:rantFire their butts hubby!
 
JaeG said:
Yes, I only use butter - lard is harder to come by here. But the price of butter is ridiculous at the moment - we get it in 500gram blocks which is about a pound. At the moment it's around $6 NZD which is around $4 USD. I remember when you could get it on special for 0.99c (about 0.70c for you guys) and that was not so long ago! They claim it's because there's more of a demand for the milk/cream they use to make it, yet cream is the same price. It'll be cheaper to keep a cow soon! Not that I'd be complaining... not that we'd be allowed to keep one where we are currently.

We are lucky enough to have access to raw milk so I should try making my own butter. The government changed the rules a little while ago to say you had to pick up the raw milk directly from the farm, whereas ours gets delivered to a local health food shop who kindly let everyone in our area pick it up from there. So until the farm worked out how to get around that (and they did) I had no milk. I tried the unhomogenized stuff from the supermarket (still pasteurized though) but my stomach did not like it!!! My gut obviously likes all the good, live bacteria in real milk. So we had to travel across Auckland (no mean feat these days) to get some from a small farm. Thankfully my supply was restored. It's so delicious!

I had to look up Crisco. Vegetable shortening! I know that stuff (readily available at the supermarket). Unlike lard, though they do have duck fat at a ridiculous price (though compared to butter it's not actually that bad)! Crazy!
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butter is really easy to make, once you have the cream and raw cream is the best.
 
CapricornFarm said:
I have been enjoying my day outside! The laundry dried fast, i need to bring that in . The bonfire is burning junk wood again and the birds are happy digging through garbage cans full of leaves.
Next the pallets come off the truck and the windows go down by the goat shed where no guys are working again!:rantFire their butts hubby!
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You're probably one of the handiest women I know CF...can you finish the shed yourself? Hope you didn't pay those guys in advance :mad:
 
Lard sounds gross lol I don't think I could handle eating it, knowing where it comes from. But I love butter and eat it all the time and I heard recently animal fats like that are actually really good for you. I never bought that that fake junk was better for you

Funny you mention ghee, my brother's girlfriend's mom was just mentioning that the other day. They both (mom and daughter, my brother's gf) use it. They're pretty healthy and I hadn't heard of it and was wondering what it was.

Hmmm, I hadn't realized milk from a farm was so good for you. I drink the regular stuff but it's not as good anymore and sometimes makes me feel weird ha
 
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And I didn't realize Vermont was so unpopulated. I always figured it was densely populated like the rest of New England. But it kind of makes sense now. Maybe there aren't many permanent/year round residents? And a lot of the people are from all the ski resorts and/or winter or summer residents? Or tourists?
 
KDOGG331 said:
Lard sounds gross lol I don't think I could handle eating it, knowing where it comes from. But I love butter and eat it all the time and I heard recently animal fats like that are actually really good for you. I never bought that that fake junk was better for you

Funny you mention ghee, my brother's girlfriend's mom was just mentioning that the other day. They both (mom and daughter, my brother's gf) use it. They're pretty healthy and I hadn't heard of it and was wondering what it was.

Hmmm, I hadn't realized milk from a farm was so good for you. I drink the regular stuff but it's not as good anymore and sometimes makes me feel weird ha
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Lard is actually quite good. Sadly The oil and sugar industry did such a good job of convincing us that it is poison that I have a hard time eating it.

Ghee is good for frying too. It does not have the milk solids in it so it does not scorch. It tastes like butter of course!
 
Now that winter's here, the days are getting shorter and the temps getting colder. I was thinking of heating my coop. What do you think? Think they might need it?
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ronott1 said:
Lard is actually quite good. Sadly The oil and sugar industry did such a good job of convincing us that it is poison that I have a hard time eating it.

Ghee is good for frying too. It does not have the milk solids in it so it does not scorch. It tastes like butter of course!
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I didn't realize it was similar to butter, figured it was completely different. It sounds pretty good
 

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